The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.